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Joe Flacco is okay
but for the most part, he takes what the defense gives you and mainly goes to the first read.
Burning those two timeouts in the third quarter which they obviously needed at the end, and the intentional grounding call due to not being on the same page with Jamison Crowder, were clearly by-products of a QB who has been with a team for less than a month. Veteran or youngster, it’s not easy to join a team in-season, learn an offense on the fly, and have great chemistry with your offensive teammates.
Late in the game, with the Jets attempting to score a TD to cut it to three, Flacco overthrew Corey Davis on the right side of the end zone and settled for a field goal. The throw was late. If it had been thrown with anticipation, it could have easily been a TD. White was open.
Flacco isn’t an elite reader of defenses, so he often doesn’t throw with great anticipation, often waiting for guys to flash open.
White has displayed the ability to be a pretty good anticipatory thrower.
And as for Flacco being more equipped to handle the Dolphins blitz, well he’s lucky he didn’t end up in the hospital, after getting crushed on a blindside blitz by safety Brandon Jones, and got rocked in the back, fumbled, recovered by Miami.
Honestly, Flacco was average today.
People can spin it any way they want, about how Flacco provided them what they were looking for, but the Jets offense, aside from the nice catch and run by Elijah Moore for a TD, was pretty underwhelming today.
There was no clearly reason to bench White, after one bad game, who is more comfortable in the Jets scheme after being in Florham Park, for the entire install in the spring and summer, for Flacco, who is still getting comfortable in it after arriving in late October.
White was benched because he had one bad start. Even Dan Marino (pictured above) had bad starts,
How do you expect somebody to calm things down for their teammates, when they aren’t entirely comfortable in the offense?
The unnecessary move was perhaps done to justify the trade.
Joe Douglas has made a number of good moves, like the Jamal Adams/Sam Darnold trades, and picking AVT, Elijah Moore and RB Michael Carter, but this wasn’t one of them. It was frivolous.
There was nothing wrong with having White and Josh Johnson backing up Zach Wilson, and playing if he got hurt. Nothing . . .
The Jets plan to go really young at corner, with late round picks and undrafted free agents, continues to haunt them.
Tua Tagovialoa doesn’t have a great arm, so for the Jets to give up a 65-yard bomb from the QB to Mack Hollins, is truly unacceptable. But when a player is as wide open as Hollins, who was about 15 yards behind rookie free agent cornerback Isaiah Dunn, it’s not that hard even for an average-armed QB to complete that pass.
When a cornerback goes undrafted, it has to raise red flags. Teams are so desperate for them, they jump on them usually earlier than they should – push them up a round. There is a cornerback shortage.
And Dunn was starting for Brandon Echols, who was a rookie sixth-round pick, who was struggling also.
Look, Dunn and Echols could improve in time, but who in the NFL viewed either as rookie starting material? Fifth or sixth cornerbacks perhaps and core special teamers, maybe. Red-shirt year in 2021 or on the practice squad was more like it.
Next year, Douglas needs to pick a cornerback in the first, and probably the second round. He needs to grab two early.
No more waiting until late.
It’s not working, and it’s impacting games in a big way.
November 22, 2021
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